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"I support the balanced report by Mr Cutaş. Strengthening relations between Europe and Uzbekistan is a pivotal element of our partnership with the countries of Central Asia. Furthermore, the European textiles industry, which has considerable expertise in processing raw materials, can only benefit from free trade with the world’s third biggest cotton exporter and fifth-largest producer of cotton.
However, especially in the textiles industry, closer cooperation must not fail to take into account respect for human rights and for children. As the EU Presidency acknowledged in June, during the cotton harvest the Uzbekistan government uses between 200 000 and 2 million children as a source of labour, closing the schools and dismissing teachers who refuse to send their pupils to work in the plantations. This fact is a serious cause for concern."@en1
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